*Isabella's surname is given as Loftin in some genealogies and as
Pennington in others. We believe that the preponderance of the evidence
favors Loftin, but are open to more data. William came to North Carolina by
about 1752. Some sources give his death as 1762; Jo White Linn's book of
Rowan County tax records (p. 156) says before 1773, when his son Joshua
distributed his father's property.

Previously this family was listed on the Shields
page, where we had a note that William Hedgecock moved to Kansas after
Sarah's death, and that he married Katie Teague, Isaac Moore Teague's
widow. Marriage bonds confirm that Katie married Able Watkins in 1866. William Hedgecock lived with his daughter Martha Pearson wife of George Pearson in Doniphan County, Kansas. He was living with her when he died 5 May 1887. He is buried in a family cemetery in Doniphan Co. Kansas. Information concerning William Hedgecock from Anita Hedgecock Homan - jahoman@kc.rr.com

Sources

Thanks to Sherry Carpenter for getting us started on this family!

Some of the information on this page comes from the WorldConnect pages of
Ann S. Bernard, Lawrence Gardner Boyd, T. Lawrence Pitts, Jeannette
Schleigh, Eric Stoley, and Jerry W. Wood. There are a few inconsistencies
among these pages, but overall they seem to agree on the basic structure of
this family.

Other sources used include the usual cemetery, marriage and census records.

This page was created on July 14, 2001. Minor modifications were made on June 2, 2005.